Twenty-nine year old Moroccan striker Marouane Chamakh, has signed for Crystal Palace on a free transfer from Arsenal. Seen as surplus to Arsène Wenger, the former Bordeaux striker is looking forward to playing for the Eagles. He is Ian Holloway’s 7th signing so far during this window, joining the likes

The one and only friendly to be held at Selhurst this pre-season is taking place this afternoon with Italian giants Lazio the visitors. The game gives many fans the first glimpse of the Palace team and Selhurst that has seen 20% to 30% improvements over the summer. Most of which

The last of this weekly segment on a Friday as we are moving it to Saturday’s from next week to make way a preview of the weekend. So what do we have this week? Bale, Rooney and Suarez. This is what the media ran with but we are going avoid

Football these days is a monster. It’s a business but not a model that companies should follow. It is in its own world and in the upper echelons of the sport it all about money, money and much more money. The influx of oil barons and multi millionaires to the

As we look forward to a campaign in the Premier League and all the excitement that comes with it there will be several occasions where Palace will not be playing on a Saturday. To fill this potential void we have decided to adopt a local non-league club to follow and

A great turnout for the short trip to Champion Hill where Palace took on Dulwich Hamlet in the latest game of the pre-season campaign. With only one defeat to the visitors name the game started in similar fashion. And it wasn not long before Palace took the lead. A quick

The pre-season campaign took the squad to the Irish Republic at the weekend and a game against Waterford United a fortnight before the big kick off against Spurs. The Palace team that began the game included a first start of pre-season for Kagoshi Dikgacoi in what looked like a possible

This is the first in what I hope will be a series of player and fan profiles on the blog. Mark Bright Mark was kind enough to kick things off by answering the best questions posed by the Twitter followers of @TheEaglesBeak. May I begin by thanking Mark very much

The second in our series of player and fan profiles on the blog. Eddie McGoldrick Eddie kindly agreed to answer the ten questions that we posed to him about his time at Selhurst Park. We thank Eddie very much for his time and for providing some interesting responses. It was

Picture courtesy of Sky Sports News (c) It was always going to be a gimmick for Sky Sports but it was quite an interesting one. And it gave us a rest from them reporting on what Gareth Bale was or was not doing! Most fans were looking our for when